Full Freeview on the Reigate (Surrey, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Reigate (Surrey, England) transmitter which serves 70,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Reigate (Surrey, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Reigate (Surrey, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Reigate transmitter broadcast?
If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Reigate (Surrey, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Reigate transmitter?
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 31km north (9°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.
How will the Reigate (Surrey, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 21 Mar 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | E | E | W T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C23 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C24 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C26 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C27 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C30 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C35 | _local | ||||||||
| C42 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | ||||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | |||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 4 Apr 12 and 18 Apr 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-3dB) 5kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 200W | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 100W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
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Ray Buck6:15 PM
Live in Crawley on Reigate transmitter. Have 4 sets, 3are fine but the Philips 19" flat screen will tune ok but the BBC 1,2 and news will not store; all other chanels store ok. After scanning all stations are fine, but the BBC stations are lost when the set is switched off and re switched on. Please can you help.All was fine before the change over.
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Ray Buck: This problem usually comes about because the device does not have spare memory for some channels. There is usually a workaround because the device is likely to be picking up and storing channels from other transmitters (that in practice you probably don't watch). It's a bit like children eating sweets and then not having room for tea.
Examination of the frequencies used by Reigate shows that the new BBC channels use C60 which is at the high end. Indeed, Yesterday etc is even higher, so I wouldn't be surprised if that behaves the same. The automatic tuning scan goes from low frequency to high.
The workaround is to prevent the device from picking up those other signals that waste its memory. If manual tuning is available, then wiping the memory and manually tuning should work.
In some cases you can unplug the aerial lead during part of the scan to avoid picking up some signals. However, I'm not entirely sure how likely this might be effective here as interleaved with Reigate channels are those of Crystal Palace and possibly Midhurst.
The automatic tuning scan goes from channels 21 to 69.
My advice would be to run the automatic tuning scan and pick up ITV1, C4 etc on C21 and then unplug the aerial.
Then manually add C60 (BBC), C24 (ITV3 etc), C39 (Pick TV) and C66 (Yesterday etc).
Come 18th April, do the same. This time C21 (the first channel it will pick up) will be ITV3 etc. Then add C60 (BBC), C57 (ITV1, C4 etc), C24 (Pick TV etc) and C27 (Yesterday etc).
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Ray Buck: To clarify my first paragraph, what happens is the scan progresses and stores the channels as it finds them. This includes channels from transmitters other than the one you want. Then it gets to the channel(s) used by the transmitter you want by which time there isn't any memory and, evidently, these Philips receivers don't have any "intelligence" to disguard those channels you don't want in order to store some of those that you do.
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Wednesday, 18 April 2012
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markb7:46 PM
Reigate
Have been using Freeview for a few years from Reigate transmitter with no issues. Final DSO happened this morning. Retuned a few times, and then even did factory reset already, but still having 'juddering' issues with all channels on Multiplex D3+4 on C57. Helped Neighbour with retune of 3 devices and they're having similar issues. Anyone know how to report this ? Drawn a blank so far !
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Friday, 20 April 2012
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Mhartes7:37 AM
After 19th April 2012 and a freeview re-tune (and a new Samsung Freeview telly) , I have lost loads of channels including BBC1 BBC2 ITV !! What a mess-up. Thank god I have got Freesat as a backup ! Mike Redhill, surrey
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Saturday, 21 April 2012
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Peter11:30 AM
Since the retunes, I get pixillation on the relevant channels but only at certain times of day, mainly 7.30 to 10.30 in evening. I may have a faulty lead but the timing bothers me. Does anyone know if the Reigate transmitter ups its signal at peak times to meet supply demands. If so, this may overload the signal.
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NICK ADSL UK 1:23 PM
Peter there is a general muck up across the board for many members of the public at this time so i would hold tight and not rush to get a cowboy to take a look
All genuine Aerial contractors that i have spoken to at this time are fully booked for the next 3 weeks at least so would hang fire
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Peter: Transmitters don't vary their output power over the day.
You've said that you're in RH2. Whilst this is a large area, it is where the transmitter is. If you have good line of sight to it, your receiver could be suffering from signal overload which at times overwhelms it. Perhaps a bit of attenuation wouldn't go a miss.
See:
Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Peter2:10 PM
Thanks Dave. What is attenuation adn how do I effect that?
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Peter: Follow the link. Attenuation is the opposite of amplification, i.e. it makes the signals smaller.
If you do have a signal booster/amplifier, then try removing that first if you can.
You can pick up attenuators for a few pounds from sources such as eBay. I put in <<variable attenuator>> and came up with this one (other sellers and models are available):
VARIABLE ATTENUATOR TV SIGNAL REDUCER 20dB 3 5 6 9 10 12 15 18 DIGITAL FREEVIEW | eBay
This is a variable one. You can also get fixed values; not sure what value you should get, a variable one allows a bit more scope for adjustment.
The objective of digital reception is not to get the signal strength as near to 100% as possible; it is quality that matters. Different receivers have different scales, but say you have 60% strength and 100% quality all the time, then that is fine. Too much (or verging on too much) is likely to have an adverse affect on quality and therefore cause break-up or worse, "no signal".
In the days of analogue, reduced signal strength usually meant more of a grainy picture, hence the need for a strong signal (then).
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